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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/elrich-squeezes-out-win-in-democratic-primary-for-county-executive/

Think pp meant Elrich won narrowly in primary which if discussion is on progressive to moderate Democrat - more applicable especially in a county that is primarily democrat

He won by 80 votes in a crowded democratic primary.  [/quote]

Yes, he won by 80 votes in a crowded Democratic primary - and then he got 65% in a crowded general election, against a long-time Democratic politician.[/quote]

[b]...who was not running as a Democrat.[/b]

You need to read up on the history and fate of third party candidates in general elections.[/quote]

Correct. After decades holding public elective office as a Democrat, she changed her party registration to independent a few months before the general election, in order to run against Elrich.

Are you saying that Montgomery County voters didn't know she was a Democrat? Or that she didn't run as a Democrat, aside from the (I) after her name on the ballot?

The experiences of Victoria Woodhull, Lyndon LaRouche, and Ralph Nader really are not relevant to the Elrich vs. Floreen county executive race in Montgomery County in 2018.[/quote]

The die was cast in the primary.  Floreen could be beloved by all, but she still was never going to be a threat to win as a third party candidate in the general election.[/quote]

She didn't run in the primary. Plus if she had been beloved by all, she would have won.[/quote]

I didn’t say she ran in the primary.  The progressive-moderate near-tie in the primary is what is relevant to the discussion on this thread.[/quote]

The progressive-moderate nowhere-near-tie in the general election is also relevant.

To the extent that Elrich actually even is a progressive, of course. In many ways, he's not.[/quote]

Elrich is a progressive by most standards. He's definitely left wing on economics... taxes, labor issues, and generally critical of capitalism. Where he is arguably not progressive is on housing, which is a thing that really divides the left. It's interesting, because the far left and the far right align on anti-development issues. The right wants to protect property values and rich white neighborhoods from change. The far left, some of it anyways, sees development as shilling for corporate landlords. Elrich interestingly has support from right-wing NIMBYs and left-wing tree huggers and anti-capitalists.

A lot of the left and center-left is pro housing density, but the far left often opposes housing when it's left to the markets. [/quote]

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